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Cameras on standby.

-Here we go.
-Take one.

Champ, watch the TV.

Unidentified male:
The average time spent

watching television is
five to six hours per day.

Holy residuals.

There's a reason for calling it
the boob tube

and the idiot box.

Let's change the channel.

and tBanzai!t box.

We want to wrap about
our scene.

Yeah.

We want to wrap about
Here is the news.

We must give the American
viewers

the kind of television
that he both desires

and deserves.

Okay, let's try and do it again

and let's see
what comes out this time.

Unidentified male:
Television has grown faster

than a teenager.

Now, it is time to grow up.

♪ (theme music) ♪

The TV was
the center of the house.

Yeah, I don't remember a time
without TV.

By 1960,

essentially every household
in America had a television.

It was a new way of
bringing the world to you.

essentially every household
in America had a television.
David Bianculli:
When something big

happened on television,

it really did happen
to the entire country

and impacted the entire
country at the same time.

Keep an awakened
eye on the world.

Suddenly, television was
the main event.

Everything else changed.
Even the way in which

you went about
the business of

Evergetting someonenged.
Evelected President.h

(indistinct chatter)

David, will you hit
the one minute button, please?

The 30 seconds
and the cut, please.

In 1960,
the Nixon-Kennedy debate

was a first in television.

A lot of people were
watching that night.

And it introduced
a lot of people to Kennedy.

the tight
shot on camera one, please.

And it introduced
Can you hear me now speaking?

Is that about the
right tone of voice?

Good evening.

The television and
radio stations

of the United States and
their affiliated stations

are proud to provide...

Robert MacNeil:
When the networks

offered a debate,

Kennedy immediately said yes.

Because he was sure
he could do better than Nixon.

Kennedy: I think Mr. Nixon is

an effective leader
of his party.

I hope he would
grant me the same.

The question before us is

which point of view

and which party do we want
to lead the United States?

Mr. Nixon, would you like
to comment on that statement?

I have no comment.

Phil Rosenthal:
If you're live on television
Mr. Nixon, would you like
to comment on that statement?

and there's a camera
right here,

there's really
no place to hide.

Once you see a guy sweating
when asked a question,

there's really
no place to hide.
are you sure he's
the leader for you?

OncThat's the questionating
before the American people

and only you can decide
what you want.

OncThaWhat you wantionating
befthis country to be.ople

What you want to
do with the future.

OncThaWhat you wantionating
I think we're ready to move.

MacNeil:
If you saw it on television,

clearly Kennedy had
won that debate.

Smith: Gentlemen,
thank you very much

for permitting us
to present the next

President of the
United States

on this unique program...

It was the beginning of a
new form of

political craftsmanship.

If you could structure
a message appropriately

for the TV camera,

you could have
a huge impact.

And if you couldn't,
you were toast.

I would like you now to give
welcome to

the Senator
from Massachusetts,
And if you couldn't,
you were toast.

I would like you now to give
welcome to
Mr. John Kennedy.

(applause)

May I ask you,

so that I don't
look too naive,

a tough question
right off the bat?

Whether I'm a Democrat
or a Republican?

-Oh...
-(crowd laughing)

People recognized
that television was

now the medium that mattered.

People recognized
It wasn't before 1960,

and it was
every day after 1960

Heilemannin those recognized
presidential debates.,

Oh, honey,
let's not watch that.

-Try to find a Western.
-All right.

Emily Nussbaum:
Once everyone had a TV set

in their living room,
and advertisers had

fully gotten a grip
on how effective this was

a way to sell products,

fully gotten a grip
on how effective this was
the very definition
of what you were doing

was to create entertainment

fully gotten a grip
on how effective this was
that would appeal to
as many people as possible.

Beaver, eat your
Brussel sprouts.

Gee, Mom, I can't.

My stomach's filled up
to my throat.

GNow, no excuses..

My sJerry Mathers:d up
Leave it to Beaver

was something that a lot of
families understood.

It's the first show
that was ever shot

from the perspective
of a child.

Beaver!

Most people had a lot

of the experiences
that Beaver or Wally had

and everyone in their life
has an Eddie Haskell.

Hi, Wally.

Some dumb kid fell
in the soup.

Good evening Mr. Cleaver.

Some poor and unfortunate
child is trapped up there.

Mathers:
Everyone has that moment

when they were so
embarrassed and they thought

they'd never get over it.
But they did.

John Willis:
Tonight's special report

a scene of a 1961 Emmys.

It isn't whether
it's a situation comedyt

or whether it's a western
or whether it's a drama.

I think it's the
quality of the show

itself that's important.

Vince Gilligan:
The Andy Griffith Show,

Mayberry, it's just a kinder,
gentler place.

It'd be hard not to
want to live in Mayberry.

Hi, Pa. Hi, Barn.

Hi Op.

The core of the
Andy Griffith Show was

this rock at the center of it.

The core of the
Andy Calm wisdom.w was

I have taken the best parts
this rock at the center of it.

of myself and people that
I've known all my life

and put them
into entertainment.

of myself and people that
I've known all my life
I hope that there comes a time

when you have to stop to
play acting and tell the truth.

Don't you believe me, Pa?

when you have to stop to
Don't you, Pa?e truth.

People appreciate
emotional honesty.

They appreciate
it more than laughs.

It's great if you can
achieve both simultaneously.

The Andy Griffith Show
actually did that very often.

For a sitcom and it shows
an unexpected depth.

Well, we think
in the new format,

the second dance number
should come

before the big sketch.

Gee, I don't know.

I like it.

Now, I like it.

Yeah, me too.

Yeah, I like it too.

What do you know? Look at that
tie you're wearing.

(canned laughter)

I only wrotehat
what I knew about,

which was my life.

If you're writing about that,
nobody can say,

"That's not true."
It is true. I'm living it.

Rosenthal:
Dick Van Dyke Show,

we could believe the actions
of the characters

because we could
On threlate to them. Show,

This wasn't a
genie in a bikini

in someone's bottle
On ton their mantle. Show,

These were real people.

Women are more, more...

Honest and direct?

WoNo. They're more.....

Courageous?

We all
have the same needs,

feelings relationships with
husbands and wives.

That was the kind
of comedy we do.s,

The problems of living.

Honey...
How much do you like that baby?

(canned laughter)

Oh, Rob, don't tell me
How you're jealous already.aby?

The season opening episode
for the 1963 season

Oh, Rob, don't tell me
How was seared into my head.by?

Now, our wives had a baby

Oh, on the same day me
How wain the same hospitald.by?

and the hospital was
very busy, Mr. Peters.

What am I getting at?

They thought
they got the wrong baby

from the hospital.?

So he calls the parents

of the other kid and thinks,

you know, we may have your kid,
you may have our kid.

Hi. We're Mr. and Mrs. Peters.

Uh, come in.

(canned laughter)

Mrs. Peters. Won't you come in.

It was beautiful.

Absolutely beautiful.

Here, they're
tackling a subject

without tackling it..

Why didn't you tell me
taon the phone?ect

And miss the expression
witon your face? it..

The network worried
about the fact that the

African-Americans
might be upset by it.

The network was
always a little behind.

There's always
somebody back there

who doesn't have
B-A-L-L-S. Balls.

In Hollywood, the winner
Carl Reiner, Dick Van Dyke.

(applause)
(fanfare)

I wish somebody had told me,
I would have worn my hair.

(laughter)

I got to tell you this one.

Do you know those
knock-knock jokes?

Yeah, but they are old now.

Do you know those
knock-knock jokes?
-Yeah.
-Yeah.

But I got a real good one,
I get a real funny one.

All right.

Go ahead start say
knock, knock.

-I say.
-Yeah, go ahead.

Go ahead start say
knock, knock.
-Knock, knock.
-Who's there?

(laughter)

There was only three networks
knock, knock.
-Knock, knock.
-Who's there?

and there was only one
late night show, really,

You know, it's Jack Paar.

They don't understand
how we do this show.

We just keeping talking with
no script.

They don't understand
how we do this show.
I know. It's agony.

We just keeping talking with
no script.
(laughter)

Jack Paar invented the late
night television talk show.

Do you feel confident
that you--

There's not a man in the world
to beat me?

I'm as pretty as Liberace.

Jack had in his corner
his personality.

It's fabulously
interesting complex,

frightening, neurotic,

but in other cases,
an enthusiastic

and informed personality.

It made for great television.

How much time I have done?
I don't have a watch, either.

(laughter)

-How much?
-Director: Nine.

Has he been charming?

-How much?
I'll quit now, then.

Here's Johnny.
Has he been charming?

(cheering, whistling)

Bianculli: Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show

but he made it his own.

Bianculli: Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show
It's going to be wild tonight.
I can always tell.

He hosted a nightly party.

Are you married?

He hosted a nightly party.
(chuckles nervously)

And if his
buddies camed?

and they started
playing together,

You felt like what it must have
felt like to go to Vegas

at three in the morning and
have the Rat Pack come on.

You felt like what it must have
felt Where is he in?egas

No, but where's
the guy you talk to?

(laughter)

No, but where's
the guy you talk to?
Oh, I love that.

It was a beautiful
thing to watch a guy

working at his best.

Okay. Mingle.

Well, do we have it already?

Get your axe
and let's go.

(piano plays)

All right.

(gasping)

(laughter)

Cavett:
If you watch it closely,

he is gauging
how much longer he can wait

to let the laugh die
before what he says

will be irrelevant
how mto what happened. wait

And he gets it
just on the nose.

It's beautiful to watch.

I didn't even know
you were Jewish.

(raucous laughter)

Johnny was the
best audience in the world.

And he loved comedy.

The woman is watching him.

She's watching him from
the corner of her eye.

She says to him,
"What are you looking at?"

"I'm looking
at that ugly baby."

(laughter)

That's a bad looking baby,
lady.

Johnny was
there listening for you

he wanted you to score,

then when you score,
he scored.

Enough is enough.
Now calm down, lady.

He said, "Madam,
the Pennsylvania railroad

will go to any length

to avoid having differences
between the passengers."

Said, "Perhaps it would
be more to your convenience

if we would
rearrange your seating.

And as a small compensation
from the railroad,

if you'll accompany me
to the dinning car,

we'll give a free meal.

Maybe we'll find a
banana for your monkey."

we'(raucous laughter)l.

Hi. I'm Dick Cavett
funnier than Chet Huntley,

taller than Mickey Rooney

and as pure and honest
as New York, New Jersey.

was
amazing because you could get

people like Norman Mailer
and Woody Allen.

My only New Year's resolution
amazing this year...could get

I think I'm going to try
to sleep

through the Nixon
administration.

I think I'm going to try
to sleep
You have authors on.
You would have

heavyweight boxers.

There were conversations.

When you mention
the national anthem

and talk about playing it
in any unorthodox way.

When you mention
the national anthem
you immediately
get a guaranteed

and talk about playing it
in any unorthodox way.
percentage of hate mail from
people to say how dare...

It's not unorthodox.

Isn't unorthodox?

No, no. I thought,
it was beautiful.

Well, there you go.

No, no. I thought,
it w(applause)ul.

They just thought
anything that's interesting

ought to have a
place on a talk show

Cavett:rather thanthought
anyoung pretty actressesing

who have used word
'excited' in every sentence.

You're not frequently seen
on television.

Is that by choice or--

Well, of course, it is the most
impressive medium of all.
You're not frequently seen
on television.

It's the medium that's
going to either save America

or send it down into demise.

It's the medium that's
There's no question in mind.

I'm getting out of it myself.
Really!

It's the medium that's
There's n(applause) in mind.

We'll be back after this.

What you do is
to book the best

possible guests from
different kind of businesses

maybe not everybody
in show business,
What you do is
to book the best

some politics,
some newspaper people...

Get them all in the
stage together and hope

that something works.

But it's a great show,
it's a great platform

for people who have
something to say.

The point is that they take
these scripts

out of their drawers.

They change the
things around.

out of their drawers.
Maybe it doesn't
Green Acres,

but on many of these shows,

and that's why night
after night, you turn on

these serials
and they all seem

as if they came outt
aof the same bread box.n

(agreement from audience)
and(applause)seem

Back then you had lots
and lots of of copy cats.
as if they came outt
aof the same bread box.n

The Addams Family
The Munsters.

and then
I Dream of Jeannie.

You You know, the oldmily
and thsaying is imitationsters.

is the sincerest
form of television.

So if one person is
doing this fantastical hit,

we're going to do that.

Now is that considered a crime?

(chuckles)
I'm afraid not.

There aren't any laws
Now ito protect us againstrime?

bad TV shows yet.
So you're safe.

Thank you.

(canned laughter)

What I'm surprised by

are some of the shows
that I can't even imagine

the pitch meetings for.

are some of the shows
Hogan's Heroes.ne

It's a story about

American prisoners of war
in a Nazi concentration camp

Which doesn't
exactly sound like

Ameit's a funny comedy.ar
in a Nazi concentration camp

Why don't they trust us,
Schultz?

That shows you how weird
the sixties was right there.

Here's another one of our
fine shows for this year,

Zoom. Pit Stop.

(chuckling from audience)

The moving story of an
effeminate race car driver...

(raucous laughter)

...who was really an
astronaut for the Mafia.

(laughter continues)

9:30 Eastern Time,
8:30 Central time,

quarter after two
Pacific Time.

(laughter)

CBS presents
this program in color.

I didn't have color television
until I was 16 years old.

Yes, I lived like an animal.

The following program
is being brought to you

in living color on NBC.

Hanks:
Getting the color TV was huge

because suddenly
we can watch

Walt Disney's Wonderful
world of color
Hanks:
Getting the color TV was huge

on Sunday night's
which was like
because suddenly
we can watch

just an acid trip of a show.

We just could not believe it.

Tinker Bell going bing, bing
bing and it was like oh,

it was like special effects,
par excellence.

♪ The world
is a carousel of color ♪
Tinker Bell going bing, bing
bing and it was like oh,

(pop music plays)

It also
happened just coincidentally

at the time when
what we think of

as the Mod Sixties came in.

Colors were all
over the place

just as TV could start
to take advantage of them.

Hi.

Well, glad you could make it.

I remember saying

stay tuned for
next in color.

Wednesday night,
September 15, in color, on ABC.

It was a
big marketing thing.

Colored TV was a
huge step forward

as far as the
technologies went.

Colored TV was a
huge step forward
And yet, I think of
Lost in Space.

Lost in Space started off
as a black and white show
as far as the
technologies went.

and then went to color.

It didn't get any better
when it went to color.

Dr. Smith, you're alive.

Of course I'm alive.

Do I look like a corpse?

Nussbaum:
The period has a reputation

for being TV as
a, kind of, candy.
Do I look like a corpse?

Sometimes it felt
like there was thision

really aggressive
innocence to it.

-(whistling)
-Only blow it in an emergency.

This is an emergency.
You're standing on my foot.
really aggressive
innocence to it.

makes no
sense whatsoever logistically.

This is an emergency.
You're standing on my foot.
I'm going to make
ia spider drunk.

How was
the professor able to build

all the stuff but
not build the damn raft?

Look at this stick of true
dynamite that I made.

It makes no sense if you pull
any single thread on it.

But it was just
like the kind of show

It designed to live foreverll
any sin syndication. it.

What are you looking for?

-A nun, who else?
-(chuckling)

Are you kidding?

is the most--
It's a crazy show.

Like what is that about?

is the most--
It's a crazy show.
Look, Carlos, it's very simple.

You see, I only
weigh 90 pounds

and the combination of my
cornet and wind lifts me.

It was just complete nonsense.

Let's face it.
(chuckles)

It was in height of the sixties

and everyone was eating granola
and dropping out

and doing God knows what else
and I wasn't.

Hello, Central?

I'm switching
to my eye glasses.

Put a hold on my wallet
but keep my shoe open.

Television more
than ever in the sixties

was a place to escape to.

Let's go.

It seemed like it
was almost

sort of a willful respite

It seemed like it
was almost
from the stuff that was
going on out in the world

and in real in life.

Here's a Bulletin
from CBS News.

There's has been an attempt,
perhaps you know now,

on the life
of President Kennedy.

There's has been an attempt,
perhaps you know now,
He was wounded in an
automobile driving from...

Until early
sixties, television news

There's has been an attempt,
perhaps you know now,
was by and largean
seen as somethingm...

of a back water
to print journalism

and even to radio,

but the Kennedy assassination
was the moment

that television journalism
came of age.io,

We'll continue
a full-day coverage

of the Presidential funeral
and the final procession...

More and more people
were depending on

television to give them
the headline news of the day.

330 Americans
were killed

in combat last week
in Vietnam.

But the number of wounded,

3,886, was the highest
of any...
in combat last week
in Vietnam.

Most of the 1960s,

the contrast between what you
saw on your entertainment
in combat last week
in Vietnam.

and what you saw
on the news was,

you know, planetary.

(shouting)

Never has this descent been
as emotional and intense.

In the sixties,
it was one thing after another.

Each year, it was
filled with poor events.

Governor Wallace has ordered

500 Alabama national
guardsmen into Tuscaloosa.

At the moment, they
are under his control.

When there was
the Civil Rights Movement,

or it was the
Kennedy assassination,

or the space race,

when there was a huge thing
that happened,

it happened on TV.

The witness to that violence

that had seemed
to be unprovoked

on the part of the
The witdemonstrators.iolence

Television became the fire

in which the whole tribe
gathered around

to listen to the elders
tell them what was going on.

Reporter: Police reinforcements
moving down Balboa Street now.

(chanting)

Good evening
ladies and gentlemen.

Tonight, live from New York...

From Hollywood...

From beautiful
Downtown Burbank.York...

Here is the star of our show,
Bob Hope.

(applause)

Variety was the backbone
of television back then.

One year, there were like
18 different variety shows.

Variety was the backbone
of television back then.
Everybody had
a variety show.

♪ (Jimmy Dean Show
theme music) ♪

Everyone was different because
of who was helming the show.

(singing)

(shouts)

Dean Martin
was just so loose.

He acted as though

he was doing the
whole show drunk

without a rehearsal.

This is a real
international show.

Now, where else could you
see a smooth Italian.

and a slippery pole?

(laughter)

He was funny.
He was really, really funny.

He always looked
as if he was a bit lost.

People thought that it
because he was tidily.

But that was
part of the charm.

Presenter:
Here he is. Ed Sullivan.

Thank you very much.
Thank you.

No matter
who controlled the TV set

the other nights of the week
on Sunday night, you know,

eight o'clock you were
going to watch Ed Sullivan.

Now, ladies and gentlemen,
a very fine hourly act.

Ed Sullivan was a phenomena
and he was powerful force.

Now, lQuiet please!tlemen,
a very fQuiet.urly act.

The beauty of
the Sullivan kind

Nof variety show is thatn,
if you didn't like some things,

something else would
be around in four minutes.

-No, Yanni, no.
-No.

-It is very difficult.
-Easy.

-No, Yanni, no.
-No.
: Advertisers
wanted everybody.

And so they got everybody.

The little kid
and his grandparents

could watch the same show.

They would
have an elephant on,

and then the next thing
somebody doing Shakespeare,

and then the next thing
have a comic.ant on,

There would be an acrobat

and then an opera
singer over next bit,

which was true variety.

♪ Forget all your cares ♪

♪ And go Downtown ♪

♪ Things will be great
when you're Downtown ♪

Anything that was current
was on

Ed Sullivan Show.

The young Richard Pryor.

Thank you.
Thank you.

Sullivan: Rodney Dangerfield.

Everybody wanted
a showcase
Thank you.
Thank you.

and if you got in on
Sullivan you knew...

You can talk about it.
"Did you just see Sullivan?"

andMy whole lifen on
I don't get no respect.

No respect from anyone.

andMy whole lifen on
I don't get no respect.
He's a performer.

You couldn't get a better place
to sell your product.

When I started out,

they would say,
"Variety is a man's game.

It's Dean, it's Milton Berle,
it's Jackie Gleason,

it's, you know, the guys."
But variety is what I know.

I felt it was in my genes
to do this.

She had been so good on
the Garry Moore show.

She always knew she could sing
and dance and be funny.

Honey, where is the...

On my show,

I would do pratfalls
and jump out of windows

and get pies in the face
and it was heaven.

II think it's gone.s
and jumOh, God. windows

You know,
I still see a rerun of

Carol Burnett show and
goddamn they're funny.

Richard Smother:
There's never been a better

three-wall sketch show ever.

She was great in bed too, Dick.

-You remember that?
-Stop.

-You never when to bed with...
-Well.

You're not supposed to curtsy,
you're supposed to bow.

But I get dizzy
when I bend over.

Burnett:
When Tim Conway came on,

his goal in life
was to destroy Harvey.

Here's Tim with our own
Harvey Korman

as a brand new dentist
with his very first patient.

Here'I use to haver own
a pool back stage

not as to whether Harvey was
going to break up.

But at how far he could
get along with the sketch

not as to whether Harvey was
before he broke up.

But at how far he could
Okay, novocaine, novocaine.

not aTake a firm holdvey was
of the hypodermic needle.

But at how far he could
Okay, novocRight.novocaine.

And they never knew
what he was going to do.

But they knew it's not going
to be what they expected.

When they did
the dentist sketch,

none of that was rehearsed.

Yeah, I'll be right
with you.

Burnett:
Poor Harvey was helpless,

tears coming down
and Tim swears

that Harvey wet his pants
during that sketch.

I don't know
why that works so well.

Watching two actors
break character

and just crack each other up

should not be
as entertaining.

But somehow
when it's Tim Conwayr up

and Harvey Korman doing it,
it just...

I could watch that
stuff forever.

I just thought
if we have fun,

the audience will...

We're going to go out there
and do what we do best

and it worked.

You can plan it,
you can write it,

you can rehearse it
but you hope for some magic

and it was Carol,
the magic of Carol Burnett.

Are you saying he's
a TV addict?

Perhaps she's been staring
at this electronic blessing,

the television set,
for so long

that its life
has become his.

Yeah.

And he's reached
such a stage of confusion

that he no longer knows whether
he's watching the action

or he's participating in it.

The Twilight Zone
theme music) ♪

You unlock this door
with the key of imagination.

Beyond it is
another dimension.

Gilligan:
There was a desire

on the part of writers
and producers

to push the envelope
and stretch the medium

and you certainly saw
The Twilight Zone.
on the part of writers
and producers

It was a very
cinematic show.

Rod Serling:
This is not a new world.

It has patterned itself
after every dictator
It was a very
cinematic show.

who has ever planted the
ripping imprint of a boot

on the pages of history

since the beginning of
times.

Rod Serling who created

came to
the realization that

through a lens of fantasy
or science fiction,

he could actually tellto
stories aboutthat

racism, he could tell
stories about fascism.

Tonight, I shall talk
to you about

glorious conformity.

It was a way to deal
with a lot of the issues

that America was starting
to go through at that time.

But in a fantastic setting

so that there's some divide
between you and the show.

They sent four people,

a mother and the father
and two kids

who looked just like humans
but they weren't.

Nussbaum:
had these

little O'Henry
like twists on it.

It was allowed
to have unhappy endings.

They picked the most dangerous
enemy they can find

and it's themselves.

Narrator:
Now, six months a fugitive,

this is Richard Kimble
with a new identity

and, for as long as
it is safe, a new name.

tCritic: The Fugitivee
was kind of aty

somber character study.

Beware of the eyes
of strangers.

Keep moving.

Everybody wanted to see
what happens to the fugitive.

Well, the actual question is
how long is it going to go on?

Will we even find her?

I'm about ready to give up.
I'm tired.

Bianculli: When it ended,
it broke the viewership record

set by the Beatles
Ed Sullivan.

It was one of the first
TV shows that actually

went somewhere.

You know, Youngstown is
not exactly on our course.
It was one of the first
TV shows that actually

Genzlinger:
In a lot of ways,

television was showing
slices of the world

that people
had never seen before.

Route 66
was an innovative show

because it was actually
filmed on location.

So the audience
are being exposed

because it was actually
to things that just

weren't part of their
local orbit.

Narrator:
Space the final frontier.

You know,
there's a little bit

of the Mayberry aspect
Star Trek

and that's going to sound
like an odd analogy

but follow me here.

People want to believed
that such a place can exist.

The idea of a future
in whichhere.

a lot of the biasesed
and fears of the pastst.

The idea of a future
has evolved out of us.

Where I come from...

Size, shape, or color
makes no difference.

Bianculli:
There's one episode

where some of the members
of the crew

were taken over by
these mental giants.

This is psychokinetics
power of yours,

were taken over by
how long have you had it?

Bianculli:
They forced Cap. Kirk

and Lieutenant Uhura
to kiss.

(laughter in the background)

It was the first
interracial kiss

on television.

Clark:
NBC asked me if would do

my own special

and I have always adored
Harry Belafonte.
Clark:
NBC asked me if would do

We decided to do
one duet called

The Path of Glory.

♪ They will die
for their country ♪

It's an anti-war song

and we both felt
very strongly about it

and I just touched his arm.

and we both felt
Sponsor went crazy.t

My star doesn't touch
a black man's arm.

Petula Clark says
I'm not doing it over

and it's my show
and it's going in that way.

And we weren't having
any of that nonsense.

No way. So it went out

the way we wanted it
to go out.

I didn't really have any
other problems with sponsors

but that sort of gave me
a taste of

I didn't really have any
otherwhat could happen.nsors

♪ A car that's moving fast
and clean and strong. ♪

♪ Get in a Plymouth seat.
You can't go wrong. ♪

Gilligan:
In the TV business,

60's was probablyeat.
about the last decade

during which
the sponsors had a really

iron grip on content.

Brought to you by Dash.

Even if they
tried to keep TV

as white homogeneous,
whole milk product

the world found its way in.
It could, it just had to.
Even if they
tried to keep TV

What's the trouble, driver?
as white homogeneous,
whole milk product

(gunshot)

Don't you ever remember

to bring a silencer?

It ruins the line of my suit.

With I Spy,
Robert Culp and Bill Cosby

were equals.
Cosby is this pioneer

Biancin terms of aSpy,
black male lead in a drama.

Rosenthal:
He made race a none issue

because he's undeniable.

The winner is
Bill Cosby in I Spy.

(crowd cheering)

The winner is
Bill Cosby in I Spy.
Bobby and I
try and put forth

an example of a way
it should be

racially in this country.

an example of a way
We need more people

in this industry
to put forth

that message
and let it be known

to the bigots
and the racist

that they don't count.

to the bigots
anThank you.st

Diahann Carroll:
As television changed,

to the bigots
it was helping all Americans

to understand that this is
what America looks like.

Frankly, you're not exactly

-what I expected.
-No?

No, not from what I read here.

Did you expect me to be

older or younger?

Carroll:
Julia was going to be

the first time
at a black woman starred

in her own television show.

Had Mr. Colden told you?

Tell me what?

I'm colored.

What color are you?

She was a young black
woman who had been educated.

Raising her son alone.

It had a universality that's

just something new.

And you'll keep
out of mischief.

-I'll just watch the old TV.
-Good.

In the 60s,
America was

exploding in a way that

needed to be reflected
on TV.

Stand still.

came back
in the late '60s

and Friday was now
in a very different world

than he had been
in the black and white days

and suddenly there were
the damn dirty hippies.ld

thanI'll makeeen
in you a book. He's beenays

andropping that acidere
we've been hearing about.d

Jack Webb
would lecture aboutays

the dangers of marijuana,
smoking, and

crazy drug culture.

They're trying to deal with

the counter culture but
they don't understand it.

So it's just basically
they're stereotypes

of what the hippies
were like and it

plays exactly like that.

Keep your nose out of
my purse.

Keep yours out of the acid,

Keep your nose out of
next time I will.

NBC presents

Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in.

(applauding)

♪ (60's music) ♪

Our country would be

much better off
with a strong leader.

I know but Sinatra
can't do everything.

much better off
with a(laughter)ader.

Hanks:
came along,

we'd never seen anything
that was kind of like

grown ups acting goofy
and hip that way,

we'd never seen anything
that was kind of like
you know, and had
girls dancing in bikinis

that they had to joke walk.

Who's in there with you?

Cool Hand Luke.

And there was nothing
Who's but jokes.ith you?

I was at the hospital.

Anything serious?

A black widow bit me.

Well, it never would
have happened

if he had been a gentleman.

Jug.

We took it to the
network and the network said

"What the hell is this?"

They said, "This makes
no sense." I said, "Right."

-Hi.
-You too?

Rosenthal:
They acknowledged

the hippie generation,

yet the hosts were in
tuxedos smoking cigarettes.

They were still
your parents.

But the other people
let loose on the show
yet the hosts were in
tuxedos smoking cigarettes.

were this kind of
young Vaudeville.

It must be
"Sock it to me" time!

Hey, she socked it to herself.

We knew that
Sock It To Me

didn't mean Sock
It To Me, right?

So we thought.

Sock It To Me.

Sock It To Me!

Sock It To Me?

It wasn't as
subversive as it sounds.

Yes, it was-- it was fun.

It wasn't as
subveSock It To Me?unds.

It was the first time
Presidential candidate

had ever appeared
on a comedy show

and that,
may have got 'em elected

and I've had to live
with that-- anyway.

The family that watches

together

really needs
to pray together.

It just seems like
it's happening right now

and it's about right now

that was greatest thing ever
that there's a

fusion of politics
and comedyght now

and everything else into
one television show.

fusion of politics
andWhen we take over,now

and eI'm going tose into
olook out for you.w.

The subjects
that were verboten,

we don't talk
about these things.

We're starting to come up

in TV and because
it was well executed,

it changed everything.

This is Smothers Brothers,
it waComedy Hour,ted,

Production 124 air, take one.

(applause)

Good evening

and welcome to the
Smothers Brothers Show.

Harry Reasoner:
If Rowan and Martin

and the Smothers Brothers
are the new stars

of TV Comedy,

it is the comedy itself

rather than the comedians

which is more often
in the spotlight.

These two programs
have consciously tried

to influence people
which is more often
in the spotlight.

by comedy techniques
to breakthrough

the traditional song
and skit routines.

by comedy techniques
to breakthrough
And by subject matter,

that is often on the
cutting edge of what is new.

Our government

is asking us as citizens,
good citizens

to refrain from traveling
to foreign lands.

Okay, all you guys in Vietnam?

Come on home.

The times were
changing so quickly

Cin the 60s,.

and we didn't
change them...

We just reflected them.
Cin the 60s,.

I can't hear you.

We just reflected them.
What are you doing?

I'm getting ready

We just reflected them.
Wto go to college.?

CBS gave
the Smothers Brothers

that show because they were

clean-cut folk satirists.

You know, they wore blazers,

they could sing well,

they were funny.

Mom liked you best.l,

You lower your voice.

Mom liked you best.

They told us
Yowhat they thoughte.

we could do
and what we should do

and it was totally wrong

and Tommy came in saying,

"I would like to show
where we could be relevant."

♪ If you ever get a war without
blood and gore, ♪

♪ boy, I'll be thew
♪evant."

♪ But until then,
♪

♪ I'm only 18,
♪
♪ boy, I'll be thew
♪evant."

♪ and I always carry a purse ♪

People in
the counterculture

started making these shows

and they don't want
to play by the rules

that other people
did before then.

and they don't want
to play by the rules
but who would expect
this Smothers Brothers

of all people to be the ones
raising this much of a fuss.

and they don't want
to play by the rules
but who would expect
thisA good script.hers

I held
my breath every time

they did the show
because I knew it

that the network people

were befouling their

trousers with fear.

Nothing funny in this.

Yeah, boys we're through
censoring your show.

(applause)

They
said the social subjects

we touched on were
not appropriate

for the 9 o'clock
safamily viewing hour.ts

Stick 'em up!

They came up with any excuse
to make it difficult.

And I came up
with any excuse to push it.

Yeah.

♪ CBS would like to
give us notice ♪

♪ and some of you don't
like the things we've said, ♪

♪ but we're still here. ♪

♪ and some of you don't
♪ Oh yeah, we're still here. ♪

They were
going to speakere. ♪

truth the power

and they were
not compromising.

Do you have
something important?

Something very important to say

on American television.

You know,
a lot of times we can't--

on American television.
we don't have opportunities
saying anything

important because
it's American television.

Every time you say something

and if you try to say
something important, they...

(applause)

Well, whether
you can say it or not,

keep trying to say it.

That's what's important,
isn't it?

Are you getting that? Yeah?

There's no one in the world

if anything is meaningful

and truthful that you're
not going to offend someone.

You've got to be able to

say what it is,

say how it is and
Ytake the consequence.to

CBS announced today
say what it is,

Smothers
Brothers Comedy Hour

will not return in

to the CBS Television Network
next season.

Network President
Robert Wood said

it became evident
that the brothers,

"Were unwilling

to accept the
criteria of taste

established by CBS."

CBS News efforts to
reach the brothers for comment

have been unsuccessful.

I was angry but we
never regretted it.

We never did regret it.

What do you think
of television honestly?

Do you think it's good?

What do you think
of television honestly?
Yes, I do.

I think, particularly
for what it is

for the amount of hours

that it gives you
for enjoyment.

Either an education
or for pure entertainment.

that it gives you
It's remarkably good.

What television did
Either an education
or for pure entertainment.

in the 60s was to show
the American people
that it gives you
It's remarkably good.

to the American people.

in the 60s was to show
the American people
Until then,ou
we did not truly know

much about each other.

We knew only
what we had seen

which is very little

and what we had read
which was even less.

Few years ago, I thought
it was the end of the world.

No, it's just the beginning.

I think
people looked at television

for answers
maybe that the world is

just confusing. It's going
to be hell over the place.

Maybe something
on here will help.

There was no denying
in the shift and

attitudes towards sex,
towards race relations,

There was no denying
in the shift and
towards politics.

attitudes towards sex,
towards race relations,
It was all televised.

That you will faithfully

execute the office.

And I will faithfully

execute the office.

Paul Newman:
When it works
And I will faithfully

television conveys
impressions

and revokes memories.
When it works
And I will faithfully

When it works well,
television makes us feel.

and revokes memories.
When it works
And Good morning.ully

When it works well,
television makes us feel.
It's T-minus one hour,

and revokes memories.
When it works
29 minutes and 53 seconds
and countingully

Television created a sense
of national unity around
culture events.

Good, now we can see

Television created a sense
you coming downround
in the ladder now.

You could
turn on a machinee

and be somewhere else.
Television created a sense
you coming downround
in the ladder now.

-You're looking good here.
-Phew, boy.

Television changed
absolutely everything.

Beautiful view.
Isn't that something?

♪ (The Sixties theme,
Composer Blake Neely) ♪